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SysML v2 Pilot Sprint
Discover whether SysML v2 can improve your engineering workflow — using your own system as the case.
Practical SysML v2 adoption
SysML v2 is a strong foundation for model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, and system-as-code workflows. For many teams, the real question is not whether the language is powerful — but whether it would actually help in your engineering workflow.
The SysML v2 Pilot Sprint answers that with your own context. In a focused 2–3 week engagement, Elan8 helps you model a selected part of your product, system, or architecture in SysML v2. The result is a practical assessment — not a generic training exercise.
What is the pilot?
A fixed-scope engagement: one focused system, subsystem, product function, or architecture topic, and a small but useful SysML v2 model. Typical coverage includes:
- System context and decomposition
- Parts, subsystems, interfaces, and connections
- Key requirements
- One or more behavior or use case scenarios
- Generated views and diagrams
- Practical recommendations for next steps
Why run a pilot?
Teams are often interested in SysML v2 but unsure where to start. A pilot replaces abstract discussion with a concrete example:
- What should we model first — and how much detail is useful?
- Can SysML v2 replace or improve informal architecture diagrams?
- Can we connect requirements to architecture consistently?
- Can we use Git-based workflows for system models?
- How does SysML v2 fit with our existing tools?
- Is this worth a larger investment for our type of system?
Who is this for?
Engineering teams working on complex technical systems — especially where software, electronics, mechanics, controls, networking, or embedded systems meet. The pilot is especially useful if you still rely on documents, spreadsheets, or disconnected tools for architecture.
Typical domains:
- Machine building
- Robotics
- Industrial automation
- Embedded systems
- Software-intensive systems
- Medical devices
- High-tech systems
- Logistics and automation
- Cyber-physical products
Typical pilot topics
System architecture modeling
Structured model of a system or subsystem — parts, responsibilities, interfaces, and dependencies.
Interface modeling
Interfaces between subsystems, software, hardware, sensors, actuators, or external systems.
Requirements and traceability
How requirements connect to architecture elements and verification activities.
Behavior modeling
Operational scenarios, use cases, action flows, or state-based behavior.
Git-based system modeling
Textual SysML v2 in Git with pull requests, reviews, and automated checks.
Digital engineering assessment
How SysML v2 fits your broader process — requirements, architecture, analysis, verification, and tooling.
What you get
1. Focused SysML v2 model
- Packages, parts, interfaces, and connections
- Requirements and behavior where relevant
- Analysis or verification concepts when they add value
2. Structured model repository
Textual SysML v2 files you can inspect, version, review, and extend.
3. Generated views and diagrams
- System decomposition and parts tree
- Interface or interconnection view
- Requirements and traceability-oriented views
- Behavior or scenario view when in scope
4. Pilot report
- What was modeled and what worked well
- Where SysML v2 adds clear value — and where it may be too heavy yet
- Tooling observations and recommended next steps
5. Team walkthrough
Session to explain the model, review views, discuss modeling choices, and explore follow-up options.
Engagement format
- Duration
- 2–3 weeks
- Elan8 effort
- Up to 40 hours
- Your team
- Typically 4–8 hours
- Format
- Remote-first, one focused scope
Example scope: one system or subsystem, 5–10 key requirements, 5–15 parts, 5–15 interfaces or connections, one behavior scenario, 2–4 generated views, a short report, and a final walkthrough. The pilot is not a full MBSE transformation — it creates a representative first model and assesses fit for your situation.
What this pilot is not
- A full MBSE transformation program or complete product model
- A replacement for all existing engineering documentation
- A long open-ended consultancy engagement
- Generic classroom training or a vendor lock-in exercise
SysML v2 Fit Check (free)
Before a pilot, we offer a 45–60 minute introductory conversation to see whether a SysML v2 pilot makes sense for your team. We discuss your product, current workflow, tools, pain points, and possible scope — then recommend whether to start a pilot, begin with a smaller architecture inventory, focus on training first, or postpone adoption for now.
Follow-up: SysML v2 Workflow Pilot
Teams that want to go beyond the first model can continue with a Workflow Pilot — Git-based model management, pull request reviews, automated checks, CI for SysML v2, model quality gates, and architecture review workflows. Especially relevant when you want system models to behave more like software: versioned, reviewable, analyzable, and automatable. We use tooling such as Spec42 in these workflows.
Why Elan8?
Elan8 builds tools for Digital Engineering of complex systems. Our work combines systems engineering, model-based design, software architecture, text-based modeling, automated analysis, and Git-based workflows — including open-source Spec42 for SysML v2 and KerML. The pilot focuses on how machine-readable system models can improve real workflows, not only on learning the language.